How to get your natal chart from Viki

What to write

Any wording works — Viki understands plain speech. All of these do the job: «make my natal chart», «calculate my birth chart», «I want a reading from my birth date».

If you’ve given your data before, she won’t ask twice: the chart is calculated right away.

What you’ll need

1. Date of birth — day, month, year.
2. Time of birth — to the minute if you know it. Without it there are no houses and no Ascendant, but the rest works.
3. City of birth — the city itself. It sets the coordinates and the time zone, and therefore the houses.

What comes back

• The chart wheel as an image — signs, houses, planets and aspect lines.
• A written reading: where the planets stand, what it means, what to pay attention to.
• A PDF report into the chat if you ask — handy to save and reread in half a year.

Which house system to pick

Viki calculates in seven systems: Placidus, Koch, Equal, Whole Sign, Porphyry, Regiomontanus and Campanus. The choice is yours — that’s Victoria’s principle, because different schools work differently.

Don’t know which? Then don’t choose: Viki uses the default, and later you can ask her to recalculate in another system and compare.

How accurate it is

Planetary positions come from NASA JPL Horizons ephemerides — the same source professional astrology software uses. Chiron, the lunar nodes, Lilith, the Part of Fortune and the vertex are calculated there as well. Aspects use honest orbs, no stretching.